Home and the limits of belonging: Homophobia and return migration to Peru

M. Cristina Alcalde

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Abstract

This article examines how in Peru LGB experiences of return migration expose multiple forms of exclusionary incorporation that mark the home—in terms of family, city, and nation—as a site of simultaneous safety and fear. I suggest that Peruvian return migrants who identify as lesbian, gay, and bisexual find themselves in the difficult and dangerous position of experiencing violence against them—homophobic practices, jokes, silencing, and discrimination—in order to be at home with their families, and in the city post-return. These forms of post-return violence exclude them even as they are otherwise seemingly incorporated back into their families and communities.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)916-931
Number of pages16
JournalSexualities
Volume22
Issue number5-6
DOIs
StatePublished - Sep 1 2019

Bibliographical note

Funding Information:
Research was made possible in part through funding from the College of Arts & Sciences Summer Research Travel Fund and the Marie Rich Endowment at the University of Kentucky.

Publisher Copyright:
© The Author(s) 2018.

Keywords

  • Citizenship and belonging
  • Global South sexualities
  • Peru
  • return migration
  • transnationalism

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Gender Studies
  • Anthropology

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